Ex-Yellow Wiggle, Sam Moran, is poised to take The Wiggles on at their own game with a deal to front his own kids TV show for Foxtel's Nick Jr. Picture: Bradley Hunter Source: The Daily Telegraph

SAM Moran is taking on The Wiggles at their own game.

The ousted yellow Wiggle has inked a deal to front his own kids' TV show for Foxtel's Nick Jr this year.

The new program will see Moran returning to doing what he loves best - entertaining kids through song and dance. It will also set him up in direct competition with his former employers, whose programs regularly air on Foxtel's Disney Jr and still feature Moran when he was part of the group.

"I don't see it that way (as competing). I think the more quality entertainment that's out there for children the better," he said.

"I had a few offers (since leaving the Wiggles) but I wanted to make sure it was the right project. When Nickelodeon came to me with this idea, it worked in well with the project I had already been developing myself.

"The songs are new. But it's still going to be the same old Sam that children have come to know."

Contrary to his former bandmates' claims that he wanted to pursue a career in musical theatre, Moran said he had only ever wanted to be a children's entertainer.

In his new show, which begins filming this month and goes to air in April, Moran will play a Dr Doolittle-type character performing the original songs that he has written over the past year with a little help from his three-year-old daughter Eloise.

Moran's axing was a PR disaster for The Wiggles. He was described as a "hired hand" when he was replaced.

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